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    centered on the language family, with most other branches currently being single languages due to recent extinctions. The Macro- family was first...
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    The languages (also spelled Gê, Jean, Ye, Gean), or –Kaingang languages, are spoken by the , a group of indigenous peoples in Brazil. The family...
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    Maxakalían languages (also Mashakalían) were first classified into the languages. It was only in 1931 that Čestmír Loukotka separated them from the family...
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  • Thumbnail for Je–Tupi–Carib languages
    Proto-Macro-Jê (with W = Proto-Western Macro-; E = Proto-Eastern Macro-), Proto-Tupí, and Proto-Karib from Nikulin (2015):: 91–96  -Tupí-Cariban basic vocabulary...
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    possible language isolate spoken by 1% of the Guató people of Brazil. Kaufman (1990) provisionally classified Guató as a branch of the Macro- languages, but...
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  • (Central ) language (, Macro-) formerly spoken in Minas Gerais, Brazil by the Xakriabá people, who today speak Portuguese. The language is known...
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    The Kamakã languages are a small family of extinct Macro- languages of Bahía, northeastern Brazil. The attested Kamakã languages are: (northern) Kamakã...
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    2010. "Nimuendajú was right: The inclusion of the Jabutí language family in the Macro- stock." International Journal of American Linguistics, 76(4)...
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    probable Macro- languages, are spoken further to the south in Espirito Santo and Minas Gerais states. Ramirez et al. (2015) notes that Kariri languages display...
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  • The Kaingang language (also spelled Kaingáng) is a Southern language (, Macro-) spoken by the Kaingang people of southern Brazil. The Kaingang nation...
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    Borôroan languages of Brazil are Borôro and the extinct Umotína and Otuke. They are sometimes considered to form part of the proposed Macro- language family...
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  • Thumbnail for Trans–São Francisco languages
    The Trans–São Francisco languages (Portuguese: Transanfranciscano) are a proposed grouping of languages within Macro-. They consist of the Krenák, Maxakalían...
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  • The Trans-Araguaia languages are a proposed subgroup of the Northern languages, which comprises three languages spoken to the west of the Araguaia...
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  • Thumbnail for Chibchan languages
    Macro- languages. Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Andaki, Barbakoa, Choko, Duho, Paez, Sape, and Taruma language...
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  • Xokleng or Laklãnõ is a Southern language (, Macro-) spoken by the Xokleng people of Brazil. It is closely related to Kaingang. Alternate names...
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    The Ofayé or Opaye language, also Ofaié-Xavante, Opaié-Shavante, forms its own branch of the Macro- languages. It is spoken by only a couple of the small...
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  • Bahia. /ɨ, ɨ̃/ can also be heard as [ɪ, ɪ̃]. Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. Proto-Macro-: um estudo reconstrutivo. Doctoral dissertation, University of Brasília...
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  • closely related Ingain, they form the Paraná branch of the family. Nikulin, Andrey (2020). Proto-Macro-: um estudo reconstrutivo (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation)...
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  • Thumbnail for Krenak languages
    Botocudoan or Borum languages, now sometimes known as Krenakan after the last one remaining, are a branch of the Macro- languages – spoken mainly in...
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  • Paraná languages, also known as of Paraná, are a branch of the languages constituted by the extinct language Ingain and by the Southern languages...
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  • Thumbnail for Cariban languages
    Tupi language families due to contact. Extensive lexical similarities between Cariban and various Macro- languages suggest that Cariban languages had...
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  • Chiquitano is usually considered to be a language isolate. Joseph Greenberg linked it to the Macro- languages in his proposal, but the results of his...
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  • The Trans-Tocantins languages are a proposed subgroup of the Northern languages, which comprises four languages spoken to the west of the Tocantins...
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  • Masakará is an extinct language related to Kamakã. It is one of the Macro- languages of Brazil. It was once spoken south of the city of Juazeiro and...
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    Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center. Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. Proto-Macro-: um estudo reconstrutivo. Tese...
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  • Timbira is a dialect continuum of the Northern language group of the languages ̣(Macro-) spoken in Brazil. The various dialects are distinct enough...
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  • Acroá (Acroá-mirim) is an extinct Akuwẽ (Central ) language (, Macro-) of Brazil. It was spoken by the Acroá people around the headwaters of the...
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  • Menién is an extinct language related to Kamakã. It is one of the Macro- languages of Brazil. Nikulin, Andrey. 2020. Proto-Macro-: um estudo reconstrutivo...
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  • also Kutasho or Catethoy) is an extinct language closely related to Kamakã. It was one of the Macro- languages spoken in Bahia, Brazil. It was once spoken...
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  • Tronco Macro- (Doctoral thesis) (in Portuguese). Universidade de Brasília.. Martin, Samuel E. (1956). "Review of A Manual of Phonology". Language. 32 (4):...
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